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Friday, 30 March 2012
Classics Club
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
My Book Club
When I spotted this over at The Broke and the Bookish I knew instantly it was talking about my book club. Love you girls!
Monday, 26 March 2012
It's Monday. What are you reading? 26 March 2012
I'm just finishing up Rosetta (Barbara Ewing) and I'm on the last few chapters so it's freaking exciting! I don't want to be working... I need to find out what happens!
Next I'm going to be reading The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) as part of Reading Rambo's readalong starting next week! But I hope to fit in before then Room (Emma Donaghue) which I picked up at the library this weekend. I've just joined the library in my new location so it's fun checking out their selection. It's only a very small community library (we only have about 2000 people in my area) but they've been super friendly and there's enough there to keep me going for now. I also picked up an audio book from the library, an Alexander McCall Smith one - Blue Shoes and Happiness. I actually have this book on my book shelf but I'm driving at least 5 hours a week at the moment and so I thought I'd try out some audio books and this one seemed like a good pick to ease me into it.
I also had book club a couple of weeks back and I forgot to post what books I picked up from there. I borrowed Emily of New Moon (L.M. Montgomery) and The Red Tent (Anita Diamant).
Commenting issues
Hi everyone,
If you are having any issues viewing your comments on my site I do apologise. It seems blogger has made an update which has broken my intensedebate commenting widget. I have made some updates (if anyone else is using intensedebate read this to check you're not affected) and hopefully it should all work going forward but unfortunately some comments in the past week may be lost. But don't worry I have read them, they just may not appear on the blog post sadly.
If you are having any issues viewing your comments on my site I do apologise. It seems blogger has made an update which has broken my intensedebate commenting widget. I have made some updates (if anyone else is using intensedebate read this to check you're not affected) and hopefully it should all work going forward but unfortunately some comments in the past week may be lost. But don't worry I have read them, they just may not appear on the blog post sadly.
Friday, 23 March 2012
Friday Pondering - Hunger Games
I've been internalising a really complicated situation in my head...*
And I've come to the conclusion that I need all you guys to help me make the decision. Because who else would know the answer to this question better than you?
Should I read The Hunger Games?
Okay before you all shout out "YES - Why are you asking such a stupid question?" let me put this into some context.
Firstly I don't read YA. It's certainly not my chosen genre as some of you may know from the books I review. I prefer meaty chunky novels, something you can sink your teeth into (with the odd chick-lit thrown in to break up the monotony). I can count on one hand the amount of YA books I've read (okay two if you count each Harry Potter book separately) and can honestly say I only liked half of them. Overall they just don't interest me.
Secondly I didn't like Twilight. I didn't hate it in one of those - I refuse to watch this and buy into the hype kind of way - I just genuinely didn't like the book. The movies were coming out and there was a lot of talk about it and one of my good friends actually really liked it so I decided to read the first book. I read the whole thing and got to the end and thought - Meh! I didn't think the writing was great, the story was boring and the whole love triangle thing drove me mad. I watched the movie on dvd just in case I missed something in my interpretation of the book but I wasn't. Nope I found the movie boring too. So I didn't bother with the rest of the series. After that I'm now pretty cautious about reading another over-hyped YA book.
And finally the story itself doesn't really appeal to me. The idea of a bunch of teenagers thrown into an arena to fight to the death just doesn't sit well with me. And if that's the main story plot then I'm worried. But if it leans a lot more heavily to more interesting dystopian undertones and themes then maybe it's worth a shot.
So now you've got the full story please Help. What do you think I should do? Should I read it?
* Sorry bit of a kiwi reference there - if you're not smiling to yourself then here's the link :)
And I've come to the conclusion that I need all you guys to help me make the decision. Because who else would know the answer to this question better than you?
Should I read The Hunger Games?
Okay before you all shout out "YES - Why are you asking such a stupid question?" let me put this into some context.
Firstly I don't read YA. It's certainly not my chosen genre as some of you may know from the books I review. I prefer meaty chunky novels, something you can sink your teeth into (with the odd chick-lit thrown in to break up the monotony). I can count on one hand the amount of YA books I've read (okay two if you count each Harry Potter book separately) and can honestly say I only liked half of them. Overall they just don't interest me.
Secondly I didn't like Twilight. I didn't hate it in one of those - I refuse to watch this and buy into the hype kind of way - I just genuinely didn't like the book. The movies were coming out and there was a lot of talk about it and one of my good friends actually really liked it so I decided to read the first book. I read the whole thing and got to the end and thought - Meh! I didn't think the writing was great, the story was boring and the whole love triangle thing drove me mad. I watched the movie on dvd just in case I missed something in my interpretation of the book but I wasn't. Nope I found the movie boring too. So I didn't bother with the rest of the series. After that I'm now pretty cautious about reading another over-hyped YA book.
And finally the story itself doesn't really appeal to me. The idea of a bunch of teenagers thrown into an arena to fight to the death just doesn't sit well with me. And if that's the main story plot then I'm worried. But if it leans a lot more heavily to more interesting dystopian undertones and themes then maybe it's worth a shot.
So now you've got the full story please Help. What do you think I should do? Should I read it?
* Sorry bit of a kiwi reference there - if you're not smiling to yourself then here's the link :)
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